Why do I need all these apt-howto-* files?

2002-01-30 Thread Ron Johnson
$ dpkg -l | grep apt-howto ii apt-howto1.7.6-4 A Guide to APT ii apt-howto-en 1.7.6-4 A Guide to APT ii apt-howto-ko 1.7.6-4 A Guide to APT ii apt-howto-pl 1.7.6-4 A Guide to APT ii apt-howto-pt-br

RE: printcap problem

2002-01-30 Thread Kurc, Marcin A.
carefully read magicfilterconf messages your new printcap is in /tmp Marcin Kurc CAD Systems Administrator Cooper-Standard Automotive -Original Message- From: eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 11:11 AM To: debian-user; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: printcap pr

Re: ETH interface in full duplex mode

2002-01-30 Thread Jeff
Jos?, 2002-Jan-30 14:59 +0100: > hi all ! > > > how to verify if an ETH interface is in fdx (full duplex) mode ? > something in /proc ?? > > if the iface is in half mode , how to force it in full mode ? > > thx 4 any help. > Jos?. You can try using ifport to change on the fly, that is if the d

nVidia GeForce Ti

2002-01-30 Thread Tongke Xue
Greetings! I have a nVidia GeForce Ti500 AGP graphics card. It worked (probably not at fullest though) under RedHat 7.2 ... I tried setting it up under Debian 2.2r4 ... but had no luck. Anyone with suggestions/past experience? Thanks, --Tong-Ke Xue __

Re: Why do I need all these apt-howto-* files?

2002-01-30 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Ron Johnson quotation: > $ dpkg -l | grep apt-howto > ii apt-howto1.7.6-4 A Guide to APT > ii apt-howto-en 1.7.6-4 A Guide to APT > ii apt-howto-ko 1.7.6-4 A Guide to APT > ii apt-howto-pl 1.7.6-4

Re: Why do I need all these apt-howto-* files?

2002-01-30 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 30-Jan-02 by Ron Johnson: > > $ dpkg -l | grep apt-howto > ii apt-howto1.7.6-4 A Guide to APT > ii apt-howto-en 1.7.6-4 A Guide to APT > ii apt-howto-ko 1.7.6-4 A Guide to APT > ii apt-howto-pl 1.7.6-4

Re: printcap problem

2002-01-30 Thread Andre Berger
* eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2002-01-30 13:13 -0500: > after I run magicfilterconf, choose all default, hp laserjet 4 and > related filter > my /etc/printcap still have nothing. > > actaully my printer is brother laser mfc 8500, I ever configure it as > mfc8300 at rh7.2, it work good there,(lprng,

Re: printcap problem

2002-01-30 Thread eric
Kurc, Marcin A. wrote: carefully read magicfilterconf messages your new printcap is in /tmp Marcin Kurc CAD Systems Administrator Cooper-Standard Automotive -Original Message- From: eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 11:11 AM To: debian-user; [EMAIL PROT

RE: printcap problem

2002-01-30 Thread Kurc, Marcin A.
Sorry, my mistake. Magicfilterconf generates printcap file in /var/tmp Printer name Short name Spool dirDevice Input filter --- HP Laserjet 4 hplj4l /var/spool/lpd/hplj4 /dev/lp1 ljet4l * Is this o

Re: printcap problem

2002-01-30 Thread eric
Kurc, Marcin A. wrote: Sorry, my mistake. Magicfilterconf generates printcap file in /var/tmp Printer name Short name Spool dirDevice Input filter --- HP Laserjet 4 hplj4l /var/spool/lpd/hplj4 /dev

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RE: printcap problem

2002-01-30 Thread Kurc, Marcin A.
why do you run lpd from a command line? lpd is already running, use 'lpr' to print do this cp /var/tmp/printcap /etc/printcap /etc/init.d/lprng stop /etc/init.d/lprng start lpr /etc/group -Original Message- From: eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 12:15 PM

exim routers, local delivery of remote address

2002-01-30 Thread Vineet Kumar
Hi, I was playing with my exim configuration last night, and I did manage to get it to do what I want it to do, but I'm not sure it's the best way (it doesn't feel like it's the Right Way). Here's what I'm trying to do: this config is running on my desktop machine, called gobo. My mailserver run

Re: printcap problem

2002-01-30 Thread eric
Kurc, Marcin A. wrote: why do you run lpd from a command line? lpd is already running, use 'lpr' to print do this cp /var/tmp/printcap /etc/printcap /etc/init.d/lprng stop /etc/init.d/lprng start lpr /etc/group -Original Message- From: eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday,

Mailing list recomendation

2002-01-30 Thread Erik van der Meulen
Hi all - I am looking for a mailing list server to replace Majordomo since that does not seem to be available in Debian anymore. I have a Potato system with sendmail and need to run only a few small lists (<100 users) but for different domains. A search in Potato packages shows: - sympa - mailma

Jumping on the printer setup problem bandwagon

2002-01-30 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Background info: Using potato installed: lprng installed: apsfilter Apsfilter seems to have successfully set up my printer. I assume this as it successfully printed the test sheet. When I try to print any file from bash (i.e., cat printcap > /dev/lp0), however, paper just runs through the prin

Re: nVidia GeForce Ti

2002-01-30 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 10:27:02AM -0800, Tongke Xue wrote: > Greetings! > I have a nVidia GeForce Ti500 AGP graphics card. It > worked (probably not at fullest though) under RedHat > 7.2 ... I tried setting it up under Debian 2.2r4 ... > but had no luck. Anyone with suggestions/past > experience

Re: nVidia GeForce Ti

2002-01-30 Thread Didier Malenfant
Hi, I'm also trying to get a Leadtek card with the GeForce3 Ti 500 to work under 2.2r4. I couldn't get it to work under XFree3.3 (would only display in 640x480 8bit) so I upgraded to XFree4.1.0 with Nvidia's own drivers. I can now get a decent resolution but X is acting very weird, the syst

Re: Mailing list recomendation

2002-01-30 Thread Brian Clark
* Erik van der Meulen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Jan 30. 2002 14:44]: [...] > - sympa > - mailman > - fml > - smartlist > - listar I would go with Mailman. It's served me well for many lists. > I would welcome recomendations for the one that would suit my needs > best. Ease of installation, configur

Re: Jumping on the printer setup problem bandwagon

2002-01-30 Thread Andre Berger
* Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2002-01-30 14:46 -0500: > Background info: Using potato > installed: lprng > installed: apsfilter > > Apsfilter seems to have successfully set up my printer. I assume this as it > successfully printed the test sheet. When I try to print any file from bash

sound problem within gnome

2002-01-30 Thread Karlheinz Nolte
Hi, I have a strange sound problem within gnome. I ask this already on the german list, however nobody could help me so far. I can play any sound file using the esdplay command when gnome is running. However no sound events are played automatically. And when I use the play button in the gnome con

Re: nVidia GeForce Ti

2002-01-30 Thread Jason Majors
> I can now get a decent resolution but X is acting very weird, the system > locks up every now and then for 5-10 seconds (the mouse cursor > dissapears when that happens) and then returns to normal. > > It's obviously not happy. :o) I've had similar problems on a TNT2, GeForce2 MX, and GeForce3

RE: Mailing list recomendation

2002-01-30 Thread Jeremy L. Gaddis
As Brian Clark already suggested, I'd have to agree with mailman. I can't comment on any of the other list programs as I haven't used any of them. I've been running mailman and haven't felt the need to explore any other options. j. -- Jeremy L. Gaddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -Original Mess

Re: nVidia GeForce Ti

2002-01-30 Thread Didier Malenfant
Did you manage to use the 'nv' driver instead? I couldn't get the GeForce3 to work with that. Jason Majors wrote: I can now get a decent resolution but X is acting very weird, the system locks up every now and then for 5-10 seconds (the mouse cursor dissapears when that happens) and then retu

Re: Jumping on the printer setup problem bandwagon

2002-01-30 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Trying "a2ps" yields the same results were I to try "lpr": i.e., sending job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1 connected to 'localhost' requesting printer [EMAIL PROTECTED] error 'LINK_TRANSFER_FAIL' sending str '^Blp' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] job '[EM

Re: nVidia GeForce Ti

2002-01-30 Thread Jason Majors
> >>I can now get a decent resolution but X is acting very weird, the system > >>locks up every now and then for 5-10 seconds (the mouse cursor > >>dissapears when that happens) and then returns to normal. > >> > >>It's obviously not happy. :o) > >> > >I've had similar problems on a TNT2, GeForce

bash history file

2002-01-30 Thread Ian Balchin
Hi, My commands are no longer recorded in .bash_history HISTFILE. HISTFILESIZE, & HISTSIZE are all set. What have i done? This is apparent in my user login, commands as root are still recorded. Thanks for any tips. Ian -- Ian Balchin http://www.imaginet.co.za/fables This machine is running

Re: Wanda swam across my desktop ??

2002-01-30 Thread Preben Randhol
csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 30/01/2002 (19:15) : > > The second part applies. I remember reading that computer users should > take hourly breaks. Walk away from your box and stare into a gray wall. > I should know. I used to do DTP where I'd be staring at the screen far > too long figuring if

keyboard issues on debian => RH sessions -- inputrc?

2002-01-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
I'm having some issues with input and display artifacts on ssh sessions from a Debian box to several RH boxen here at work. Typically, a shell session works OK, but vi, vim, and less have problems usually with backspace keys (backspace/delete seem to be mapped oddly). This also seems to be related

Re: Why do I need all these apt-howto-* files?

2002-01-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 10:34:04 -0800 Anton Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Submitted 30-Jan-02 by Ron Johnson: > > > > $ dpkg -l | grep apt-howto > > ii apt-howto1.7.6-4 A Guide to APT > > ii apt-howto-en 1.7.6-4 A Guide to APT > > ii apt-howto-

pflogsumm for sendmail?

2002-01-30 Thread andrew . clark
Just wondering if anyone knew of a package/app that works like pflogsumm but operates on sendmail logs? Please CC replies to me. R, Andrew Clark

Re: x-configuration (initialization) problem - MOUSE

2002-01-30 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
Dear Claus, give more info: What sort of mouse? What connection? Do you use gpm? What is written in XF86Config? Regards, Joachim On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 05:36:54PM +0100, Claus ladekjær wilson wrote: > Mouse doesn't work. At first it runs really fast and nobody knows where. > Then it disappear

jed-testing driving me mad by redefining "Alt-F" (Esc-F)

2002-01-30 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
Hi there, is there anyone who can help me with disabling this f*ck*ng keystrokes to enable the menus??? I already edited /usr/share/jed/lib/jed.rc by changing the following lines: % enable_menu_keys (); enable_top_status_line (0); If I'm not totally mistaken this used to do the trick in

lpstat -- connection refused

2002-01-30 Thread benfoley
i had a functioning cups system going up to two days ago. all of a sudden, i get "connection refused" when i run lpstat, run in response to a can't connect from the browser. essentially, localhost:631 is refusing connections. has anybody had that or have any clue as to why that port would reject

Re: Mailing list recomendation

2002-01-30 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Brian Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.30.2052 +0100]: > I would go with Mailman. It's served me well for many lists. i would too, but not with the potato version. get 2.0 at the very least because 1.x lacks some features. i don't remember which, but i had to switch to fall in love

Re: Mailing list recomendation

2002-01-30 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.30.2042 +0100]: > I have a Potato system with sendmail and need to run only a few small > lists (<100 users) but for different domains. the only one i would suggest, which i actually find better than any of the usual ones, including mail

Re: How to use the BTS?

2002-01-30 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
martin f krafft wrote: > you either email > > @debian.org > > or you use the tool 'reportbug' in the equally named package, which > makes it a lot easier. Umm, of course! Thanks, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgpgbxB6wyOFK.pgp Description: P

Printer bandwagon

2002-01-30 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Although I hate using this as a solution to problems, rebooting got my printer working. However, in light of the fact that apsfilter didn't offer me an HP4L, I chose just the HP4. This is not the right printer specs obviously. How do I know change the specs to what I need? Thanks, Curtis

Re: sound module for CS4236 in Potato-r4?

2002-01-30 Thread Adam Majer
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 08:17:41PM -0800, Klaus Neumann wrote: > Hi, > Can't find the right sound module for my CS4236 in Debian potato r4. Any hint > will be appreciated. Thanks! This is from kernel 2.2.19, Documentation/sound/README.OSS Crystal CS4232 and CS4236 based cards such as AcerMagic

Re: potato boot floppy

2002-01-30 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 06:32:04AM -0500, Sam Cook wrote: > I am a new user trying to install vanilla potato from an existing dos > partition. Everything seems to go okay until I try to create a boot > disk. > I get errors with the format of the floppy (invariably). Dos system has > no problems wi

Fetchmail locking up

2002-01-30 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, For years now I've used fetchmail to get mail and now its suddenly stopped working. What happens is that fetchmail seems to freeze instead of flushing the account. Its set to pick up every minute...it takes several minutes on just one of my mailboxes and thus never actually gets any mail

woody iso

2002-01-30 Thread Bostjan Muller
Hi! Can someone please tell me where to get the latest woody (testing) working woody iso image. Regards/Lep pozdrav Boštjan Müller -- [*] Boštjan Müller - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://neonatus.net/~neonatus [*] [*]GPG/PGP key -> finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED], DSA id: 0x9B2FF108[*] [*] Celular

console-common and an unwanted amiga keymap

2002-01-30 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, all efforts to apt-get upgrade aor install new packages fail due to a problem setting up console-common. the error message is below. I've tried setting the warning levels in Debconf at low to see a more helpful message. Can anyone spot how to fix this? [~]: dpkg --configure -a Setting

Re: potato boot floppy

2002-01-30 Thread scook
I kept trying, changing to idepci flavor and using different diskettes, and finally got one to format without errors. Now I am just using lilo on hda and when I give up I dd if/boot/boot.0300 of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1 (from page 137 of _Running Linux_) My big problem now is hard disk errors that

Re: install

2002-01-30 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 04:44:10PM +, Krzysztof wrote: > Witam! > Mam takie pytanko: Jak skonfigurowa? bezpieczny serwerek dost?powy na > SDI ?. Dodatkowo wyposa?ony w Firewall kt?ry zapewni bezpiecze?stwo > na wysokim poziomie). English in the list please... I don't know what SDI is. If

Re: printcap problem

2002-01-30 Thread Jeff
eric, 2002-Jan-30 12:42 -0500: > >lp|hplj4l|HP Laserjet 4L:\ > > :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj4l:\ > > :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ > > :if=/etc/magicfilter/ljet4l-filter:\ > > :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: > > > > > >but it still not print, if I run lpd, I got: Did you

Re: Fetchmail locking up

2002-01-30 Thread Bob Thibodeau
It sounds like you're set to download only unread messages and these 11 have been marked as read even though the initial download didn't complete. Try running a session explicitly telling fetchmail to get all messages. I'm in Windows hell right now, so I can't tell you how to do that. HTH Bob Q

Re: Again: Most programs don't run. [Thanks!]

2002-01-30 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi, having uninstalled tiger and cfingerd the problem didn't return for some days. So it seems one of them was the culprit. Why a tiger or cfingerd cronjob could lead to a situation where most programs can't start anymore remains a mystery to me. Thanks to all who helped! Andreas Goesele PS: I

php and java

2002-01-30 Thread Hans Steinraht
hi, Can someone help me with getting java running with php. I'm just new to php and read that I have to compile php4 with java-supprt in it. For that I think I need some php-sourcecode to do it. I have installed the php4-package, but I can't find anything that I can compile. Also I can't find any

Re: Again: Most programs don't run. [Thanks!]

2002-01-30 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Andreas Goesele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.31.0115 +0100]: > PS: I hope it's not premature to report the problem solved. As the > German saying goes: Man soll den Tag nicht vor dem Abend loben. "Thou shalt not praise the day before night hath come." i *am* shakespeare. or elvis? i f

device 3dfx ker 2.4.17

2002-01-30 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
I am trying to optimize my Voodoo 3500. I have compiled the kernel with 3dfx support. It is my understanding that I should now have a /dev/3dfx drivers, but I do not. I had downloaded the device3dfx drivers but after reading the docs I was lead to believe that these were only for 2.2.x kernels

dpkg Weirdness

2002-01-30 Thread Nick
[1] KDE depends on Python !?! [2] apt-get remove estimates space-to-be-freed badly The KDE 2.2.2 Woody/unstable box that I'm building ran out of disk space the other day (already over 900 Mb used, and all I have is gcc, perl, python, kde, kdevelop and koffice ... jeez). So I set about removing

Re: device 3dfx ker 2.4.17

2002-01-30 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 07:11:24PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I am trying to optimize my Voodoo 3500. I have compiled the kernel > with 3dfx support. It is my understanding that I should now have a > /dev/3dfx drivers, but I do not. I had downloaded the device3dfx > drivers but after readi

Re: printcap problem

2002-01-30 Thread John
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 02:43:58PM -0800, Jeff wrote: > eric, 2002-Jan-30 12:42 -0500: > > >lp|hplj4l|HP Laserjet 4L:\ > > > :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj4l:\ You sure your printer port is /dev/lp1 & not /dev/lp0 ? Just a thought. John > > > :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ > > > :if=/

Re: dpkg Weirdness

2002-01-30 Thread Chris Cheney
kde (meta) -> koffice (meta) -> kivio -> python2.1 maybe kivio in woody depends on python 1.5 ? Removing python2.1 on a sid system would require that kde, koffice, and kivio at minimum to be removed. Chris

Compaq qvision 2000+ and x

2002-01-30 Thread pkinch
Does anyone have any information on how to configure xf86 for a Compaq qvision 2000+ video card and Compaq 1024 monitor. At this point I'm pretty sure there is no driver support for this card but any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated. _

Trying to install version 2.1 on my laptop (je parle aussi français)

2002-01-30 Thread Frédéric L. MIR
Hi, This is my first attempt to install Linux ever, and this from the CD coming with the book Installing Debian GNU/Linux (version 2.1). I have a Fujitsu laptop with a CDROM drive, a floppy drive and a 4Gb harddrive which i repartitionned using PartitionMagic 7.0 (i kept 2Gb for Windows on hda1 a

Cheap XXX Videos and DVDs

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Re: Compiling pcmcia-source

2002-01-30 Thread Seneca Cunningham
Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 10:00:30PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote: > > [ moved prefix reply to end (hi Karsten)] > > > On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Seneca Cunningham wrote: > > > I need the pcmcia module to get access to my ethernet card and cdrom, but I > > > just

Is Framebuffer needed?

2002-01-30 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
In trying to optimize my Voodoo 3500 with mplayer I compiled my kernel 2.4.17 with framebuffer support. Is this necessary, or what advantages do framebuffers have? In the docs it seems that fb's simply allow for similar config's on different architechures. Therefore, if one is running an Intel

Re: potato boot floppy

2002-01-30 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 05:33:31PM -0500, scook wrote: > I kept trying, changing to idepci flavor and using different diskettes, > and finally got one to format without errors. > Now I am just using lilo on hda and when I give up I > dd if/boot/boot.0300 of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1 > (from page 137

network isues.

2002-01-30 Thread Andrew J. Hoyos
I recently tried to set-up exim for sending mail on my lan. I have a 5 computer setup with one computer masq'ing my ppp connection. I can send and receive mail locally, and receive "internet" mail, but can't send it out. I am getting errors in mainlog, that say "Network is unreachable" For exampl

Re: Compaq qvision 2000+ and x

2002-01-30 Thread Adam Majer
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 08:53:58PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone have any information on how to configure xf86 for a Compaq > qvision 2000+ video card and Compaq 1024 monitor. At this point I'm pretty > sure there is no driver support for this card but any ideas or suggestions > wo

aolserver and symlinks in /usr/lib/cgi-bin

2002-01-30 Thread Andre Berger
I'm running aolserver 3.4.2 on potato and would like to give mailman a try. Mailman installed in the into /usr/lib/ and put a symlink into /usr/lib/cgi-bin/, like: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -l /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 18 Jan 30 21:43 mailman -> ../mailman/cgi-bin/

Re: failure notice

2002-01-30 Thread eric
Dear Debian users: When I used apt-get update, I get the following error at end: Fetched 2374kB in 45s (52.7kB/s) Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occured while processing tomcat (NewVersion1) E: Proble

Re: [OT] dpkg Weirdness

2002-01-30 Thread David B Harris
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 01:28:13 + Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The KDE 2.2.2 Woody/unstable box that I'm building ran out of disk > space the other day (already over 900 Mb used, and all I have is gcc, > perl, python, kde, kdevelop and koffice ... jeez). Just to let you know, I just ran a fr

Re: Is Framebuffer needed?

2002-01-30 Thread David B Harris
On 30 Jan 2002 20:36:14 -0600 Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In trying to optimize my Voodoo 3500 with mplayer I compiled my kernel > 2.4.17 with framebuffer support. Is this necessary, or what > advantages do framebuffers have? In the docs it seems that fb's > simply allow for simi

Re: network isues.

2002-01-30 Thread David B Harris
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 02:41:02 + (UTC) "Andrew J. Hoyos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently tried to set-up exim for sending mail on my lan. I have a 5 > computer setup with one computer masq'ing my ppp connection. > > I can send and receive mail locally, and receive "internet" mail, but >

libz1 package

2002-01-30 Thread Doug Jolley
Hi -- I'm new to Debian. Can anyone please tell me what the deal is with the libz1 package? It seems to be needed by quite a few other packages. Accordingly, I was surprised when I couldn't find it on my distribution CDs. I was even more surprised when I couldn't find it in the packages sectio

Latest kernel

2002-01-30 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I'm using woody; what is the latest kernel that is suitable for the distribution? TIA, Oki

FreeSwan

2002-01-30 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I was trying to install the .deb, but I had the following: Kernel support for IPSec not found, aborting. What kernel version should I use? TIA, Oki

Re: libz1 package

2002-01-30 Thread Seneca Cunningham
Doug Jolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi -- > > I'm new to Debian. Can anyone please tell me what the deal is > with the libz1 package? It seems to be needed by quite a few > other packages. Accordingly, I was surprised when I couldn't > find it on my distribution CDs. I was even more surpri

Re: [OT] dpkg Weirdness

2002-01-30 Thread Nick
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 22:06:16 -0500, David B Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 01:28:13 + >Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The KDE 2.2.2 Woody/unstable box that I'm building ran out of disk >> space the other day (already over 900 Mb used, and all I have is gcc, >> perl,

Re: dpkg Weirdness

2002-01-30 Thread Nick
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 19:58:30 -0600, Chris Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >kde (meta) -> koffice (meta) -> kivio -> python2.1 > >maybe kivio in woody depends on python 1.5 ? OK, thanks. I wasn't expecting KDE to depend on scripting language packages. I guess in these days of large hard disks

Re: libz1 package

2002-01-30 Thread Doug Jolley
>I wondered about that myself, when I first started with Debian. zlibg1 >provides libz1, so you need to install it. Ah. That's undoubtedly it. (An important thing to know I might add.) Thanks for the input. ... doug _ Dou

Re: Latest kernel

2002-01-30 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 10:16:55AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using woody; what is the latest kernel that is suitable for the > distribution? 2.4.17 I'm not sure but since 2.4.15 (I think) all new kernels in 2.4.x series are just bug fixes. - Adam

Re: Latest kernel

2002-01-30 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Oki DZ quotation: > I'm using woody; what is the latest kernel that is suitable for the > distribution? Any good 2.2 or 2.4 kernel will do. 2.2.20 and 2.4.17 are the latest of each series, and both seem to work well in my experience. Craig pgpyyk1bpWWiL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [OT] dpkg Weirdness

2002-01-30 Thread David B Harris
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 03:31:44 + Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well I'm not at the box at the moment - I'll have a ferret around on > it tomorrow. I've remembered that I have kernel source debs for > 2.2.19 and 2.2.20, and one of them is unpacked, so that's another, > what, 150 Mb ? It'll b

Re: dpkg Weirdness

2002-01-30 Thread Ben Burton
> >kde (meta) -> koffice (meta) -> kivio -> python2.1 > > > >maybe kivio in woody depends on python 1.5 ? The version of kivio in woody is very old and still depends on python 1.5 packages. I'm still holding out hope that the newer koffice will enter woody in a matter of days - the build for the

Re: Installing Debian over Network with the e100-driver

2002-01-30 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 04:02:31PM +0100, Hanno B?ck wrote: > I would like to install debian on my laptop over > network/dsl-connection. Is there a possibility to load the e100-driver > from the installer? How can I install debian over network?? Rescue disk (Floppy) is DOS floppy. You can read i

Re: libz1 package

2002-01-30 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 19:14:39 -0800, Doug Jolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi -- > > I'm new to Debian. Can anyone please tell me what the deal is > with the libz1 package? It seems to be needed by quite a few > other packages. Accordingly, I was surprised when I couldn't > find it on my dis

Re: bash history file

2002-01-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 08:57 PM +0200, Ian Balchin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > My commands are no longer recorded in .bash_history > > HISTFILE. HISTFILESIZE, & HISTSIZE are all set. > > What have i done? This is apparent in my user login, commands as > root are still recorded. > >

apt-get isntall error, mmap run out of room, urgent

2002-01-30 Thread eric
Dear Debian users: When I used apt-get update, I get the following error at end: Fetched 2374kB in 45s (52.7kB/s) Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occured while processing tomcat (NewVersion1) E: Problem w

Re: Quake III

2002-01-30 Thread Corey Halpin
> I'm using the following hardware: Pentium-II, 320M RAM. Intel 440LX AGP > chipset. Matrox g400. > When I run quake 3, it runs for a few minutes, and then locks X such that I > can't switch consoles. The video freezes where it was, and the sound starts > looping on itself. I can ssh in.

Re: dpkg Weirdness

2002-01-30 Thread Chris Cheney
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 03:42:55AM +, Nick wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 19:58:30 -0600, Chris Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >kde (meta) -> koffice (meta) -> kivio -> python2.1 > > > >maybe kivio in woody depends on python 1.5 ? > > OK, thanks. I wasn't expecting KDE to depend on sc

UT

2002-01-30 Thread Corey Halpin
Does anyone know how to install UT such that it doesn't use software rendering when one has a matrox g400 card? Using debian unstable. I'll gladly provide more system details for solutions. :-) thanks, crh -- Corey R. Halpin (http://www.cae.wisc.edu/~halpin/ ) Student of Electrical Engine

Re: UPS made by MGE?

2002-01-30 Thread Gary Turner
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 11:19:28 -0500 (EST), Mike Dresser wrote: >On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Henry House wrote: > >Don't be fooled by VA ratings. Go find a standard load on whatever you're >comparing, and see how long the actual run time is. I could make a 300VA >unit, that will run for 6 weeks off a 9

Re: Screen Dump Util

2002-01-30 Thread Angus D Madden
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 02:49:27PM -0800, Harris, Jason wrote: > /usr/bin/X11/import -window root dump.bmp > > I've always wanted to do a date command, perl it up and make the filename of > the import results datestamped like dump29012002_143900.bmp. Is there > anyone out there that can do that

Re: Wanda swam across my desktop ??

2002-01-30 Thread crispin
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 11:20:14AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I could go on all day with examples, but I'll end my rant here. Wanda > > freaked me out, made me perform unneccessary, worrying work, and apon > > Hey, it's just an innocent fish... I du

Woody KDE

2002-01-30 Thread Alec
Hi I'm curious, what's keeping some KDE packages from becoming 2.2? apt-cache show kmail for example, still gives "4:2.1.1-7" Thanks Alec

Re: Screen Dump Util

2002-01-30 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 09:38:57PM +0100, Holger Rauch wrote: > I would like to make dumps of screens/windows. Which tool in Debian > Potato do you recommend (it should also support different color > depths)? (I know there is GIMP, but this one is rather large and I'm > looking for something small

Re: Compiling pcmcia-source

2002-01-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 10:00:30PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote: [ moved prefix reply to end (hi Karsten)] > On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Seneca Cunningham wrote: > > I need the pcmcia module to get access to my ethernet card and cdrom, but I > > just can't get pcmcia-source to compile. I've tried to do i

ncpfs version question

2002-01-30 Thread Johann Spies
Why are there ncpfs version 2.2.0.19 packages in the debian tree but only the 2.2.0.18 packages are installed using apt? This is both on unstable and woody. Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch "The Lord knoweth how to d

cant rsync non-us.debian.org

2002-01-30 Thread Patrick Hsieh
home:/home/taka/cronlog.d# cd home:~# rsync non-us.debian.org:: rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes read so far) rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(139) home:~# is there something wrong? -- Patrick Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG public key http://pahud

Re: Compiling pcmcia-source

2002-01-30 Thread Dougie Nisbet
On Wednesday 30 January 2002 2:59 am, Seneca Cunningham wrote: > make[4]: *** [3c575_cb.o] Error 1 > make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs/clients' > make[3]: *** [all] Error 2 > make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs' > make[2]: *** [build-modules] Error 2 > make[

Re: Wanda swam across my desktop ??

2002-01-30 Thread Preben Randhol
csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 30/01/2002 (11:13) : > > Oh c'mon. There's a reason for the fish. If you see the fish, it simply > means that "You're spending too much time with your computer. Prolonged > exposure to this GNU/Linux box has been known to cause hallucinations, > acute insominia, ca

Re: Wanda swam across my desktop ??

2002-01-30 Thread Preben Randhol
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 30/01/2002 (11:14) : > Preben Randhol writes: > > Which means that free software cannot be trusted and will not be of > > industry quality. > > After all, nobody in "industry" would put a flight simulator in a > spreadsheet, would they? I see. The free sof

diskless X problems

2002-01-30 Thread David Wright
I am trying to set up a diskless workstation (to centralize maintainance) but am having problems getting X sessions to work. The system boots (from a floppy, then mounts root and /usr seperately over nfs), and I can login and work from a text console. The xdm login appears, but when I log in,

Re: Wanda swam across my desktop ??

2002-01-30 Thread Tony Crawford
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on 30 Jan 2002 at 13:44): > On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 11:01:27AM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > > ... gnome code bloat ... > > Like the man said, you have the > source, go and fix it. > > Or not use it :) How abou

Come and see Debian at LinuxWorld!

2002-01-30 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
If you are in the New York area, come and see us at the LinuxWorld conference and expo in the Jacob Javits Center today though Friday. We're in booth #29 in the .org pavillion. You can see Debian on a variety of architectures, get a cool Debian t-shirt by making a donation to Software In The Publ

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